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Title: Fan jets or pencil
Post by: tom cronin on February 01, 2012, 06:28:47 pm
Was discussing this in the shop...havent tried the fans, i thinking stick with pencil?
Title: Re: Fan jets or pencil
Post by: keyser soze on February 01, 2012, 07:03:20 pm
i used fans for the first time today and i thought they are better but not sure what it looked like when i was done . gonna have a look tomorrow.
Title: Re: Fan jets or pencil
Post by: tom cronin on February 01, 2012, 07:10:41 pm
Did u come across bird mess on upstairs windows, i just think a jet would be better on more stuborn stuff
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Post by: keyser soze on February 01, 2012, 07:17:28 pm
no i used  them on pizza hut
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Post by: bobplum on February 01, 2012, 08:28:03 pm
install the fan jets  along side the pencil jets and try them or /and pipe them up so you can use all four
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Post by: dave.e on February 01, 2012, 08:39:02 pm
i used pensil jets for 6 years and the one day i went over to fans just to try them out and i have used them ever since. i found i could turn down my flo from 60 to 35 and work faster and now if i had to go back i think i would jack it in all together.
Title: Re: Fan jets or pencil
Post by: Walter Pole on February 02, 2012, 07:37:53 pm
If you wash the shampoo off your car/van off with a hosepipe it comes off lovely. If you missed a bit of mud when washing with shampoo, you put your finger over the end of the hosepipe to inrease pressure ad 'blast' off that bit of mud.  I mistakenly bought fan jets and subsequently love them to bits...they blast through snail trails and green conservataory roofs simply by having more mehanical abrasion, that is provided the flow rate is high, really high so you an see a rainbow when the sun is shining.
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Post by: bad trippy on February 02, 2012, 07:45:45 pm
fan jets are king, i would never go back to pencils
Title: Re: Fan jets or pencil
Post by: tom cronin on February 02, 2012, 08:38:24 pm
If you wash the shampoo off your car/van off with a hosepipe it comes off lovely. If you missed a bit of mud when washing with shampoo, you put your finger over the end of the hosepipe to inrease pressure ad 'blast' off that bit of mud.  I mistakenly bought fan jets and subsequently love them to bits...they blast through snail trails and green conservataory roofs simply by having more mehanical abrasion, that is provided the flow rate is high, really high so you an see a rainbow when the sun is shining.


That is exactly what i wanted to know! Id of thought the pencil jets would better for that reason, but obviously the other way round ! Useful post!
Title: Re: Fan jets or pencil
Post by: ants on February 02, 2012, 10:14:06 pm
Dont buy the plastic ones from Gardiners tho,ive broke 4 in one week.

Dont wanna knock his company tho as his poles are great.But those fanjets should be given out f.o.c. not £8 a pair
Title: Re: Fan jets or pencil
Post by: Sean Dyer on February 03, 2012, 08:28:56 am
how do you go about rinsing with fan jets then?
Title: Re: Fan jets or pencil
Post by: sham33 on February 03, 2012, 09:12:04 am
I've been converted to fan jets but I've gone through 5 gardiners jets in a couple of months. Only way I  can use jets now is if I get a brush with jets made by some one else  but I really don't want to stop using gardiners sill brush  ???
Title: Re: Fan jets or pencil
Post by: bad trippy on February 03, 2012, 09:17:24 am
I've been converted to fan jets but I've gone through 5 gardiners jets in a couple of months. Only way I  can use jets now is if I get a brush with jets made by some one else  but I really don't want to stop using gardiners sill brush  ???
you sure their just not blocked?
Title: Re: Fan jets or pencil
Post by: Alex Gardiner on February 03, 2012, 09:19:02 am
I've been converted to fan jets but I've gone through 5 gardiners jets in a couple of months. Only way I  can use jets now is if I get a brush with jets made by some one else  but I really don't want to stop using gardiners sill brush  ???

A few clients have had this problem.  We've got a new improved supply of these. Drop me an email on alex@agardiner.co.uk.


Title: Re: Fan jets or pencil
Post by: Alex Gardiner on February 03, 2012, 09:19:36 am
Dont buy the plastic ones from Gardiners tho,ive broke 4 in one week.

Dont wanna knock his company tho as his poles are great.But those fanjets should be given out f.o.c. not £8 a pair


Drop me an email on alex@agardiner.co.uk.
Title: Re: Fan jets or pencil
Post by: John pearce on February 03, 2012, 11:00:54 am
I used pencil jets at first, only because it came as a package, later gave fans a try because i found out they were better for HYDROPHOBIC GLASS... which most of my custies seem to have ...real pain.
(don't buy the buget one's there rubbish,)
Title: Re: Fan jets or pencil
Post by: tom cronin on February 06, 2012, 06:44:25 am
Can anyone recommend some for me to buy, if it makes any difference ive got a 34ft streamline carbon pole.


Going to get an aqua dapter aswell, am really looking forward to getting it:)